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“Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering.
Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them.
Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.”
― Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters

“We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the word. It must be given freely. In abundance.”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

“Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.”
― Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides

“One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.”
― Steven Erikson, House of Chains

“The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?”
― Steven Erikson

“Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility.”
― Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides

“Don't worry. I am like most people. I can keep my eyes and still see nothing.”
― Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams

“In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every solider in every world.”
― Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams

“Death? Since when is death failure?”
― Steven Erikson, The Crippled God

“Very well, permit me, if you will, on this night. To break your hearts once more.”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

“It's our nature, isn't it? Again and again, we cling to the foolish belief taht simple solutions exist”
― Steven Erikson

“When one does not know what one seeks, caution is the surest armour.”
― Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides

“Whatever evil you let ride becomes commonplace, eventually. Problem is, it’s easier to get used to it than carve it out.”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

“the mind that has convinced itself of its own superiority is incapable of humility, and in the absence of humility, it is incapable of growth.”
― Steven Erikson, Fall of Light

“The Lady takes most mortals unto her bosom by maladies of the colon.”
“Death by constipation?”
― Steven Erikson, Bauchelain and Korbal Broach

“It’s the ignorant who find a cause and cling to it, for within that is the illusion of significance.”
― Steven Erikson, The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

“The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief. But there are other anguishes, many others. They unfold as they will, and to dwell within them is to understand nothing.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation. None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve. To face death is to stand alone.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds